I can't stop but wonder at how rapidly the world has changed between the boomers and today's Generation Alpha. From the iconic black Model 500 rotary telephones used through the 1950s to obsolete pagers exploding today as part of terror attacks...the world has indeed come a long way, and not necessarily always in the right direction. Boomers remember lining up in school to receive the mandatory smallpox vaccine in the 1960s and here we are again, staring at the Mpox menace.
A confirmed Mpox Clade 1b case in India has us all in a tizzy bringing back painful memories of the devastating Covid-19 pandemic. With global warming and melting of ice, the episodes of viral zoonotic diseases will be an unpleasant reality. And all these viruses will mutate and adapt to our new ways. Ingenious, frustrating, and deeply worrying, but definitely here to stay, viruses and disease will continue to plague humankind.
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